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Cornelia Ann Salt was 22 when she was found shot multiple times in the head in a rental car on a dead-end street near Jordan Park in Salt Lake City on November 12, 1994. She was a member of the Navajo Nation. The initial investigation produced few leads and the case went cold.

In 2009 investigators focused on two men after a confidential informant said one of them, Cornelia’s former boyfriend Richard Anthony Byrd, had been angry that she left him to marry someone else and had shot her. DNA warrants were obtained, but the case stayed unresolved. In September 2012 Byrd, 43, was found dead in a West Valley City canal; an autopsy ruled his death an accidental drowning. After consulting the district attorney’s office, Salt Lake City police closed the investigation. No one was ever arrested or charged in Cornelia’s murder.

Did anyone who knew Cornelia or who lived near Jordan Park in 1994 notice anything unusual that night?